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Is there a way to prevent an Alienware mouse from sleeping or going into low power mode? I recently switched from an old mouse to a wired AW320M. My old mouse always instantly worked no matter how long I left it alone. With the Alienware mouse, if I leave it alone for a while and then try to use it, it doesn't work for about a full second. It's not the end of the world, but I do find it annoying when I move the mouse and can't find the mouse cursor, then realize that it didn't start working yet.
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MysteriousMrX - 12.31.2024 19:20:39
If you're on PC, right click on "This PC", choose Manage, choose Device Management on the left panel of the next screen, choose Mice and other pointing devices in the right panel, right click on each entry and choose properties, go to the
MysteriousMrX - 12.31.2024 19:22:41
Power Management tab of the popup, and deselect "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" if it's checked.
AllTracTurbo - 01.01.2025 00:23:58
@MysteriousMrX - I tried searching online if there was a way to prevent it from happening and I already did that. That option is actually grayed out and cannot be checked. I think it is because I completely disabled power management for all
AllTracTurbo - 01.01.2025 00:27:15
the USB ports so everything plugged in stays powered. I think this is an internal thing that is happening in the mouse itself. I installed the Alienware Control Center to turn the RGB off and adjust the DPI, but did not see a power setting.
AllTracTurbo - 01.01.2025 00:31:49
I have since removed that software though because it runs a lot of stuff and seems kind of intrusive. You can disable the services to stop it from running, but I wanted it gone completely.

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